Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | African countries would be well advised to refuse many of the pesticides that they receive for free , according to a scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 2 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 3 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 4 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 5 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 6 | that that can be seen from er the bungalow almost directly opposite , and er it 's almost a traditional requirement that they ask for steep pitches . |
| 7 | Hay 's booksellers justifiably boast that they cater for all tastes . |
| 8 | He says that they sample for dozens of chemicals — the Severn supplies drinking water so they have to be accurate . |
| 9 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 10 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 11 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 12 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 14 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 15 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 16 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 17 | Law centres vary in the services that they provide for individual clients . |
| 18 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 19 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 20 | The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably . |